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Victoria, Australia law passes the upper house

Excellent news from Australia. Further to our previous report, the upper house of the Australian state of Victoria has passed a Voluntary Assisted Dying bill. The bill passed by 22 to 18 after a 28 hour sitting. The progress is reported in this Guardian article. The debate in the upper house caused some amendments to [...]

Phil Cheatle 2017-11-24T15:41:34+00:00 November 24th, 2017|Australia|

Progress in Victoria, Australia

MDMD is pleased to see that an assisted dying bill in Victoria is making good progress, having passed a vote in the lower house by 47 to 37. The Bill still needs to pass a vote in the upper house. See this BBC report, for example. More details are provided in the Dignity in Dying [...]

Phil Cheatle 2017-10-21T11:27:29+00:00 October 21st, 2017|Australia, Dignity in Dying, Life Expectancy|